Sheep : their breeds, management, and diseases to which is added, the mountain shepherd's manual / by William Youatt.

  • William Youatt
Date:
1869
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Credit: Sheep : their breeds, management, and diseases to which is added, the mountain shepherd's manual / by William Youatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — The thyroid glands—The windpipe—Catarrh—Laryngitis — Bronchitis — Acute iafiaminatiun of the lungs—Consumption—Epidemic diseases—Description of a dread- ful epidemic in New South Wales. Chapter XV.—BREEDING—THE GENERATIVE AND URINARY SYSTEMS . . . Page 493 The grand principles of breeding—The importance of getting rid of every faulty sheep—The principle of selection, with cautious admixture—Proper age of the ewe for breeding—Best time for lambing—Time for putting the ram with the ewes—Period of pregnancy—Management of the ewe during pregnancy—Abortion—The immediate preparation for lambing—Duties of the lamber—Natural labour—False presentations— The Caesarian operation—Inversion of the womb—Inflammation of ditto—After-pains —Monstrosities—Care of the lambs—Affection of the ewe—Substitute lamb—After care of the lambs—^Twins—Cuckoo and gull lambs—Castration—Docking—Garget— Spaying—Weaning—Diseases of lambs—Diarrhma—Curdling of the milk^Costive ness—Fever—Sorting of the lambs. Chapter XVI.—THE LOCOMOTIVE ORGANS . 521 Difference in the quantity of bone—Fractures—Swelling of the joints—Rheumatism —Strains—Diseases of the foot—Disease of the biflex canal and fetlock joints—Foot- rot—Cause—Progress—Treatment—Highly contagious—Satisfactory experiments of this. Chapter XVII.—THE INTEGUMENT. . . 535 The structure of the skin—Little cutaneous perspiration—Little radiation of animal heat—Infectious diseases not readily communicated—The scab or rubbers—Spread by means of the rubbing places—Produced by insects—Cuts of them—Produced also by neglect—Method of cure—’Erysipelatous scab—Wildfire—Ignis sacer—Lice and ticks —Method of destroying them—The fly—Sheep-shearing—The washing—The operation itself—The cruelty of shearing fat sheep early in the spring—Salving or smearing— The question of it—Its absolute necessity in cold and exposed situations. ^ Chapter XVIII.—THE GRASSES AND FATTENING OF SHEEP. 649 The system of sheep-feeding—^The general inattention to the comparative nutritive qualities of the different grasses—Mr. Sinclair’s experiments on them—^The sweet- scented vernal grass—Meadow foxtaU—Smooth and rough stalked and short blue mea- dow—Sheep, Welsh—Hard and meadow fescue—Round-headed cocksfoot—Narrow- leaved and fertile meadow—Rye-crested dogtail—Yellow-oat and meadow—Cat’s-tail grass—Bent’s mangel-wurzel—Potatoes—Peas—Barley—Oil-cake—Corn—Hay. Chapter XIX.—A LIST OF THE DRUGS USED IN THE TREAT- MENT OF THE DISEASES OF SHEEP. . . 554 Alcohol—Aloes—Alteratives — Alum—Antimony—Arsenic—Calamine —Camphor- Catechu — Chalk— Corrosive sublimate—Digitalis—Epsom salts—Gentian—Ginger —Iodine — Lead—Lime — Linseed oil—Mercury—Calomel—Nitrate of silver—Nitre —Opium—Salt—Sulphur—Tar— Spirit of tar—Turpentine—Oil and spirit of ditto— Zinc. THE MOUNTAIN SHEPHERD’S MANUAL.
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